An icy cold start to the morning with the first ground frost at 5 degrees on a NW>4 with a mix of cloud and sunshine.
Several small passerines blogging and moving but no sign of yesterdays Black Redstart but I,m sure they will be more. The first Redwings headed >W , probably arrived by the moderate north westerlies over the last couple of days, just a day earlier than my previous earliest record.
A single adult Yellow Legged Herring gull was on the far NW shore along with LBBs though they soon moved off >SW whilst the Tufted ducks have now moved on.
At just short of 0900 hrs the flood gates opened and skeins of Pink Footed geese piled through with 5 relatively small groups apart from 2 very distant skeins heading >W scopeing into the far distance over the Hebden Bridge/ Stoodley Pike area.
Vis Mig
473 Pinkies...............222.>SE 251..>W 51, 31,54, 68, 18 SE 168, 83 W
c150 Goldfinch............>S
8 Redwing..................>W
sev Mipits...................>S
22 Starling..................>NW
6 Alba Wagtail............>S
Present
c 100 Goldfinch
sev Mipits
1 YL Herring gull
14 LBB gull
9 Stonechat
5 Reed Bunting
4 Wren
+ usual sp.
BS